Kent Conrad: “I do not want to be part of any papering over or slipping by or not facing up to... a fundamental threat to the economic…”

The consequence of failure has to be made clear.

If we are going to make this whole system solvent, it is going to take everybody to give a little bit.

Fully 64 percent of the American people said they were worried about not having enough money for retirement.

It was incredibly important that we not only made Social Security solvent, but we lifted the bottom 20 percent dramatically.